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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 1 |
| 1909 | 38 |
| 1910 | 20 |
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- "Will You Help to Build the Fence?"
The Washington Children's Home Society launches a billboard teaser campaign to raise a $500,000 endowment — a novelty in the Northwest — likening itself to a fence that keeps children from falling over a cliff.
- Seattle Stewards Accuse Produce Men of Fixing the Market
The Seattle Stewards' Association charges that local dealers are colluding with San Francisco shippers to control the price of California produce — and the federal district attorney promises prosecution if the evidence holds.
- Seattle Builds a World's Fair on the University's Front Lawn
A month before the gates open, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition is nearly finished — and when it closes, seven buildings and a $300,000 auditorium stay behind for the University of Washington.
- The Women's Vote Gets Its Own Newspaper
Washington's Equal Suffrage Association launches 'Votes for Women,' a monthly that will follow the cause from Seattle to the far corners of the earth.
- A Women-Only Hotel for the 1909 Seattle Fair
Clubwomen, churches and the Y.W.C.A. planned a 100-guest refuge for unescorted women visiting the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
- Seattle's Anti-Cigarette Law Made Possession a Crime
A new Washington law going into effect in June 1909 banned not just selling cigarettes but simply having them.
- Around the Horn With a Hold Full of Salmon
Seattle shipping men launch a regular Cape Horn service to New York and Philadelphia, betting on the Panama Canal to put salt water on equal footing with the railroads.
- Gold Medals and a Pitch for Stevens County Orchards
At Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Stevens County took top honors for grains and fruit—and its commissioner came home claiming local apples could beat Wenatchee and Yakima.
- Old-Line Republicans Move to Freeze Out the Insurgents
The state central committee calls an August convention a month before the primaries — a maneuver progressives say is designed to strip them of a voice in the party platform.
- The Boxcar Full of Washington: Selling the Evergreen State to the East
A Great Northern exhibit car of glass-jarred fruit has toured 10,000 miles through the East, drawing 100,000 visitors and closing schools so pupils could see what Washington grows — all part of Louis W. Hill's campaign to lure settlers west.